Sunday, 7 September 2014

Shining Waters

Leaving the Mainland for Prince Edward Island the aim today was to visit 2 awkward to attain parks and a fair that I had found in the weeks leading up to the trip.

The rather long bridge that joins the island to the Canadian Mainland. Expect tolls. The first park was Shining Waters on the north of the island.

Having missed the entrance the first time around we eventually located our park and made our way in. We'd expected the car park to be beside the road but it's at the back of the park so you have to take a small slip road to reach it.

Before a huge bridge was built the island could only be reached by sea (durr!) so they had quite a lot of lighthouses around the coast to help guide the boats in. Perhaps they could have used this replica lighthouse at the entrance to guide lost tourists to the park.

Now there's a lovely welcome to the park.

The park is very open with a small number of attractions on a large plot of land. I guess they do have plenty of room to expand, although I'm not sure they'd need to. Numbers were very low today.

Their coaster was a Herschell kiddy coaster but the trains looked a bit bigger than you'd usually get making them appear oversized for the track they were on. This ride had quite a kick to it.